Director's Corner

The default collision of the energy of the ILC has always been 500 GeV with promises of an upgrade to 1000 GeV. A while ago, alternative scenarios of a staged ILC that would start at 250 GeV and ramp to 500 GeV later were discussed. All scenarios were evaluated in the community and Hitoshi Murayama reports on the result: the ILC would start at 500 GeV, then go down to lower energies before possibly receiving an upgrade to even higher ones.

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In spring, 1408 high school students answered a survey done by the Oshu International Relations Association. The survey asked whether they had heard about the ILC, what it meant to them and whether they had any worries or expectations. The results are fascinating and will have some influence on how the project will be communicated to locals if it gets approved.

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Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.

At a recent symposium about the proposed International Linear Collider, Symmetry chatted with Masanori Yamauchi, the new director-general of KEK, Japan’s high-energy accelerator research organization. Yamauchi, who received his PhD in physics at the University of Tokyo, has been at the laboratory for more than 30 years.

「街なか音の祭典」は14日、水沢商人まつりと同時開催され、会場一帯はにぎわいを見せた。国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の誘致ＰＲと市国際交流協会の活動を紹介するブースも設けられ、市民が関係者に気軽に話し掛けていた。(The music and merchants festival was held in Oshu city on 14 June. The ILC booth was set by the city’s International Relations Association, promoting the project to general public)